I was somewhere past 12,000' on ADSL, and AT&T wanted to sell me 1.5Mbps/384kbps (website). I was able to get a reseller (DSLExtreme) to get them to push it to 3Mbps/512kbps package. I was direct from a CO - no RT here. I did get the occasional drop - it was same time everyday.... when the cities sprinklers 'watered' the X box next to the VRAD.